Referred to by the New England Quarterly as "the forgotten New England novelist," Gerald Warner Brace gave us stirring pictures of life along and near the New England coast. Between Wind and Water, first published in 1966, is a distilled memoir of 60 years of living and sailing along the Maine coast. Each chapter depicts some phase of his life on the coast, most having to do with boats or longshore work. Some stories are about people and their ways, and some are about the old life of saltwater farms, while others detail the hazards of fog and storm, the pleasures of unfamiliar waters, and the satisfaction of meeting the elements.